UNDP helping with solar-powered charging stations for Electric Vehicles

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L-R are Eraina Yaw, Head of National Office, IOM; Dr. Mahender Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, Guyana Energy Agency; Jean Kamau, UN Resident Coordinator; Richard Maughn, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary, Board of Industrial Training & Nadira Balram, Officer-in-Charge, UNDP with UNDP’s electric vehicle.
L-R are Eraina Yaw, Head of National Office, IOM; Dr. Mahender Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, Guyana Energy Agency; Jean Kamau, UN Resident Coordinator; Richard Maughn, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary, Board of Industrial Training & Nadira Balram, Officer-in-Charge, UNDP with UNDP’s electric vehicle.

The United Nations Development Programme has granted some  US$250, 000 to the Government of Guyana, under the just energy transition (JET) Seed Funding Initiative, to construct three solar powered charging stations for Electric Vehicles (EV’s) in the capital city.

The project was launched on Monday at UN House in Kingston with funding from the Joint Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Fund

Each station will include a 15-kilowatt solar PV pile module installation which will be linked to a charger capable of charging two electric vehicles simultaneously, which will disperse about 50 kilowatts of power. Those vehicles will receive 90 per cent of battery power in about 45 minutes.